Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.

Meta is starting to ramp up its growth-hacking tactics for Threads in a bid to boost engagement on the Twitter competitor.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m in a similar situation. I’m also in a town where I have no friends and I can only keep in touch with the friends I have via Facebook, and then a handful by other methods. My brother is also ASD and Facebook is his preferred communications medium. I really wonder if I’ll ever hear from him again if Facebook goes down. He’s never once called me or emailed me and I don’t know his phone number or email address.

      • Melpomene@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I was in this boat too. Gave it some thought and realized that if my “friend” group was so uninterested in including me that none of then could be bothered to shoot me a text, then… they weren’t really my friends in the first place.

          • Melpomene@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            I’ve never been “friends” with thousands of people. If I had 100 people on Facebook, I maybe spent real world time with a dozen and we did have phone numbers so…

          • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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            1 year ago

            You are not friend with thousands of people. You are friends with a tiny subset of them, about 5 is avarage, so just get them to talk to you.

              • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Well in that case you have better memory than any human who has ever existed. Also they also have better memory than any human who is better existed.

                So there is apparently 1,000 people out there who are freaks of nature and no one’s noticed.

                Come on dude it’s literally impossible to remember 1,000 people’s names, even if you had met even half of them. Which you haven’t because you can’t meet 1,000 people in any real sense, you can see 1,000 people in a stadium perhaps but you can’t really interact with them in any meaningful way.

                Just because it says there your friends on Facebook doesn’t mean they actually are your friends. In that you know them and would attend their weddings.

    • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Let me explain,

      You study a college, everyone has a Facebook account so it makes sense for teachers to just notify students through Facebook. If everyone has a Facebook account and you dont, its your problem. Noone is going to message you via email just for you.

      A different example, You go to an Office. There is a huge notice board. Its filled with notices and there is a huge queue. The office management has not made it digital so the staff members themselves setup a Facebook page and post the pics of notices. Because they know how to use Facebook and everyone around them use Facebook. So what kind of fool would reject that convinience in looking up notices and go queue up in there?

      • Melpomene@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        If a professor is using Facebook v. the academic platform provided by the school, they’re 100% in the wrong.

        If I go to an office with a huge queue and they’re not professional enough to have set up a website then why, exactly, would I trust them with my money? That shows a lack of business sense given that Facebook could destroy their entire model on a whim.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I don’t deal with any business that uses solely facebook as means for communication. I don’t miss them, the platform does a bit less and things get less enshitified. Craigslist isn’t that bad, I still use them all the time, people are much better than the flakes I used to deal with on facebook marketplace. There will be a federated classifieds soon, I’m sure, and the people will regain that corner of the market again.

          • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Which is so dumb, making a website isn’t that hard with all the tools that will do it for you and are advertised on every pod that has ever been cast.

            • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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              1 year ago

              That’s true, but on the otther hand, nobody GenZ or onwards checks for websites anymore. Most people will look up a business on instagram first, so I don’t blame them, especially small businesses, when they operate on social media primarily.

              • wowbagger@lemm.eeEnglish
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                1 year ago

                What? Myself and most of my friends are Gen Z and nobody I know does this. Google Maps is always the first place I look, and 70% of the time I click through to the business’s actual site.

                Hell, most of us barely use IG at all anymore

                • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  That’s great then. I’m a musician so not a business per se, but I need to promote my music and act as a business in that regard. My anecdotal experience - Even though I have a linktree as my “website”, most people who look me up when I post my music search my social media profiles instead. From the business pov, it makes sense because getting a follow on social media means long term visibility and engagement, instead of viewing a website one time and forgetting about it; unless you have a newsletter people can sign up for (if they even bother). So I agree that websites should still be a thing, on the other hand I also understand how small businesses choose to operate on social media.

      • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately there’s a lot of things that communicate only via Facebook, and they’ve decimated Craigslist so it’s the only place to sell crap.

        Undead marketers?

  • LoopedNetwork@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel like if you’re still willing to use anything Meta has touched, you have no excuse to be surprised by this kind of thing.

    • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yeah if anything they arent aggressive enough. They should force all IG users to gave threads or even replace all IG comments with threads ‘threads’.

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have Instagram because in my country it’s the only way to contact some businesses. And they are mingling threads posts in between the IG posts.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The worse part is that it looks like a screenshot of Threads, but when you look closely it’s actually an IFrame of the whole Threads post with a link to go there and a tiny text advertisement to activate your Threads account.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The company that everyone warned would ruin the threads platform is ruining the threads platform? Oh no. Anyway,

    • macallik@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      I think the equivalent is actually Amazon’s main website sharing to friends your Audible purchases in the hopes it can get you to join Audible

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Do they really want the people who stayed on Facebook that drove out the initial wave of cool users to go to their new site and drove people away too?

    I don’t really understand Facebook’s logic here. It’s widely known that throwing money at a social networking site doesn’t create sustainable growth, see Google Plus as an example.

    Besides, it seems to me that Threads is just filled with blue checked celeb accounts nowadays and they (usually their social media person) barely ever post anything there, nevermind anything interesting or funny, and I don’t think people actually care for that at all.